Tierra de Leche

Synopsis

A group of Central American dairy workers in the Northeast of the United States reminisce about their relationship to the land, labor practices, and their home countries. Hours, days, weeks, and years pass by and the repetitiveness of the labor makes way to new families in a non-place. These workers, despite their initial dreams, never come back home, where many of their families forget about them, or are lost to time. The film is an exploration of multispecies exploited by capitalistic forces, humans and cows, and questions the technologies we have created to maximize efficiency over liberation. It is not all lost, however. They have left the farms.

Director Biography

Milton Guillén is a Nicaraguan filmmaker, editor, and the senior programmer for the Camden International Film Festival/Points North Institute in Maine, USA. His work explores the cinematic intersections of radical collaborative non-fictions and political dreamscapes. Fiona Guy Hall is a visual artist, painter and filmmaker from Maine. In her studio art practice she integrates her background in pure mathematics and philosophy and tackles affective themes through sensorial cinematic experimentations that include drawing, wool, sculptures and others. Tierra de Leche is her first short film.